Perhaps your thoughts will be swayed by the argument made in this study: “Benefits of Swaying While Standing to Higher Selective Attention in Goal-Directed Visual Tasks,” Anke Hua, Mélen Guillaume, Sergio T. Rodrigues, Fabio A. Barbieri, and Cédrick T. Bonnet, Human Movement Science, vol. 99, February 2025, article 103318. The authors explain: “Overall, our finding […]
Erik Peper, co-author of an Ig Nobel Prize-winning book about how to cure ill people by holding one’s hand near them but not touching those ill people, has a new research study of students who did mathematics whilst slumping in their chairs. The new study is: “Do Better in Math: How your Body Posture May […]
Subway benches, mundane though they might seem, can sometimes become ‘multistable’ – thereby attracting the attention of Robert Rosenberger (who is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology). The professor, a specialist in postphenomenology, has recently examined the multistability and agency of mundane artifacts (from speed bumps […]
Habit and hygeine are targeted together in this invention, which converts almost any standard sitting-type toilet to become a squatting-type toilet: “Novel type externally arranged foldable squatting chair,” Chinese patent #201675851 U, published December 22, 2010. The patent document explains: “The utility model discloses a novel type externally arranged foldable squatting chair modified from a […]
